Changelog

JobRelay can now tell Google the moment a job is added, updated or removed, so new jobs show up in Google’s job search sooner and closed ones drop out faster.

New

• Google Indexing, which uses the Google Indexing API to tell Google straight away when jobs are added, updated or removed.
• Google Indexing settings: choose Off, Log only or On, and add your Google service account key. The key can also be set with the JOBRELAY_WPCON_GOOGLE_INDEXING_KEY constant in wp-config.php.
• A Google Indexing section on the settings page, with Test connection and Send now buttons, the calls used today and a log of what’s been sent.
• See what Google was last told about each job in the Google for Jobs column and the JobRelay Data box, with a Tell Google now link.
• An admin notice and a Site Health check if Google isn’t being told about your jobs.

Improved

• Notifications are queued and retried if they fail, and stay within Google’s daily limit.
• On a copy of your site at a different address, such as a staging site, Google Indexing works as Log only, so staging jobs are never sent to Google.

For developers

• New filters: jobrelay_wpcon_google_indexing_mode, jobrelay_wpcon_google_indexing_should_notify, jobrelay_wpcon_google_indexing_url, jobrelay_wpcon_google_indexing_daily_limit, jobrelay_wpcon_job_schema_column_text.
• New actions: jobrelay_wpcon_google_indexing_notified, jobrelay_wpcon_after_job_schema_meta_box_status, jobrelay_wpcon_after_settings_form.

Your jobs can now appear in Google’s job search, with Google for Jobs markup added to every job automatically.

New

• Google for Jobs (JobPosting) schema markup on single job pages, built from the job data JobRelay sends.
• Google for Jobs settings, including turning the markup on or off and optional hiring organisation details.
• A Google for Jobs status column in the jobs list in the admin, with the reason shown on hover.
• The Google for Jobs status of each job in the JobRelay Data box on the job edit screen.

For developers

• New filters to customise the markup: jobrelay_wpcon_job_schema, jobrelay_wpcon_output_job_schema, jobrelay_wpcon_is_job_schema_remote, jobrelay_wpcon_job_schema_closing_date_keys, jobrelay_wpcon_job_schema_salary_units, jobrelay_wpcon_job_schema_employment_types, jobrelay_wpcon_country_codes.
• New jobrelay_wpcon_before_job_data_meta_box action.

Improved

• Improvements to the Bullhorn application form.

Improved

• Updates to the Loxo integration.

New

• Support for Loxo integrations.
• JobRelay can now receive job data as JSON, for one job or several at once.

Fixed

• Jobs with accented characters in their title, such as é or ü, now get the correct URL.

For developers

• Job posts are updated using sanitize_title() instead of sanitize_title_with_dashes().

Improved

• Every piece of text in the plugin can now be translated.
• A job’s latitude and longitude are saved as separate fields, making them easier to use in maps and location searches.

New

• The plugin is ready to translate, and comes with a German translation.
• A description field for the file upload on the Bullhorn application form.

Improved

• JobRelay’s scheduled tasks are removed when the plugin is deactivated.

New

• Bullhorn integrations can now use the Bullhorn Public API for jobs.

Improved

• JobAdder jobs are given the correct post author.

Improved

• JobRelay looks in more places for a job’s author, for every provider. This means JobAdder jobs now get the correct author.

For developers

• The keys JobRelay checks for the job author can be changed with a filter.

For developers

• The delimiter used to split terms can be changed with the jobrelay_wpcon_term_delimiter filter.

Improved

• The JobRelay job data on the job edit screen is tidier, with the job description moved to the end.

Fixed

• JobAdder jobs are now deleted correctly when they’re removed.

New

• The groundwork for JobRelay to work with XML job feeds.

Fixed

• When checking for an existing job with the same reference, JobRelay now looks at scheduled jobs as well as published ones. This stops duplicate jobs from JobAdder when a job in the feed has a future publish date.

New

• A JobRelay Data box on the job edit screen, showing the raw data JobRelay sent for that job.

Improved

• The mapping fields on the settings page are checked, and get a red border if their JSON isn’t valid.

Fixed

• For JobAdder integrations, an existing job’s author is no longer overwritten.

New

• Support for Workable.

Improved

• JobRelay’s social media images are deleted when a job expires or is deleted.
• Fields mapped to a taxonomy can now be left empty.

New

• Location (geo) data is saved for each job.

Improved

• JobRelay’s endpoints now run last, so they load reliably alongside other plugins.
• Open Graph images are output whether or not Yoast SEO is installed.

For developers

• A function to get the location data for a job.
• Hooks to change what happens when JobAdder jobs are no longer in the feed.
• The sanitisation function for each meta field can now be changed.

New

• If a job has a short description, it’s saved as the job’s excerpt.

Improved

• Clearer descriptions for some of the JobRelay settings.

Fixed

• JobAdder jobs without a published date are no longer given an empty date.

Fixed

• JobAdder jobs had their published date changed to today each time the feed was sent. New jobs now use the published date from JobAdder.

New

• Compatibility with the new social media images add-on.

Improved

• A clearer error message when no data is sent to the connector endpoint.
• The job board endpoint now uses POST instead of GET, so long requests are no longer blocked by servers.

Fixed

• A conflict with another plugin that used the same function name.
• An error in the JobAdder endpoint when checking which jobs to update.